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erade-L at3ftr-THREE ATTEMPTEDHOLDUPS REPORTEDSheriff’s Force Told of Narrowvayjer Escapes From Highway Kob-be- berles on Highway,theNCarthage, Mo., Aug. .31.—-The sheriff's office today received reports of three attempted holdups last night and early today on tiigh-1 ® way No. 66 east and west of here, but so far as could be learned no ^ur one was robbed, tion. Two tourists reaching Avilla last nlle midnight reported that two men had stopped them about two miles bon east of here, asking the distance to ►use Joplin and Sarcoxie. When a sec-iey. ond car pulled tip beside the tourist the car and Stopped, the tourists drove on. One of the occupants of the tourist car had $80 in money on sene his person, It was reported. ■ of No Trace Found,tan- Another tourist reported thatda- two men attempted to wave him ery. down a short distance west of are Avilla, but that he speeded up his ngs machine, continuing on his way, j 0f Sheriff Harry D. Stephens and Deputies Otis Wheeler and Doren Arthur drove east on highway No. s at 66 to the County line at about 2 any o’clock this morning* but siw no nty, trace of the two men. vtth Still another person, DanielFerns of Rochester, Pa., who re-PJwlPi*cofeewiitmrear01P*
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Joplin Sunday Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Sep 01, 1929
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